linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 15/21] x86, acpi, numa: Don't reserve memory on nodes the kernel resides in.

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Date:	Thu, 25 Jul 2013 10:34:56 +0800
From:	Tang Chen <tangchen@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/21] x86, acpi, numa: Don't reserve memory on nodes
 the kernel resides in.

On 07/24/2013 04:59 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
......
>> +static bool __init kernel_resides_in_range(phys_addr_t base, u64 length)
>> +{
>> +	int i;
>> +	struct memblock_type *reserved =&memblock.reserved;
>> +	struct memblock_region *region;
>> +	phys_addr_t start, end;
>> +
>> +	for (i = 0; i<  reserved->cnt; i++) {
>> +		region =&reserved->regions[i];
>> +
>> +		if (region->flags != MEMBLK_FLAGS_DEFAULT)
>> +			continue;
>> +
>> +		start = region->base;
>> +		end = region->base + region->size;
>> +		if (end<= base || start>= base + length)
>> +			continue;
>> +
>> +		return true;
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	return false;
>> +}
>
> This being in acpi/osl.c is rather weird.  Overall, the acpi and
> memblock parts don't seem very well split.  It'd best if acpi just
> indicates which regions are hotpluggable and the rest is handled by
> x86 boot or memblock code as appropriate.

OK. Will move this function out from acpi side.

Thanks.

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